Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 59

But remember, that from the moment you commence your task until it is finished, even should it occupy years of your life, you must not speak.

Who acts: you, task, your · What happens: remember, commence, finish, occupy, not speak, task · To what, where: that, task · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, task, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 remember	cc
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 remember	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 moment	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remember	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 commence	nsubj
9	commence	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moment	acl:relcl
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 task	nmod:poss
11	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 commence	obj
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 finished	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 finished	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 finished	aux:pass
15	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 remember	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 occupy	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 occupy	advmod
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 occupy	aux
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 occupy	nsubj
20	occupy	occupy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remember	parataxis
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 occupy	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 life	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 life	nmod:poss
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 years	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 speak	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 speak	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 speak	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 speak	advmod
29	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 occupy	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	remember	imperative	you not said here	that	moment	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	commence	present	you	your task		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
3	finish	present · passive		task		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
4	occupy	should	task		year	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
5	not speak speech: other	must	you			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	task		your			nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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